November 4, 2022 | CN, Derailment, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, November 3, 2022) CN crews are responding to a derailment that occurred yesterday in Paulina, Louisiana, involving one tank car that leaked hydrochloric acid, prompting an evacuation in the immediate vicinity. Full story: Progressive...
November 3, 2022 | Canada, CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 3, 2022) Canadian National set a single-month record for movement of Western Canadian grain in October, the company said, moving more than 3.23 million metric tons. Canadian Pacific also set a grain-movement record for the month, the...
October 26, 2022 | CN, Headlines, Quarterly Income
(Source: Canadian National Railway press release, October 25, 2022) MONTREAL — CN today reported its financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. Diluted earnings per share (EPS) of C$2.13 increased by 40% on an adjusted basis, which...
October 26, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 24, 2022) Canadian National has asked federal regulators to condition the approval of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger on the granting of trackage rights over the KCS line linking Springfield, Ill., with Kansas City...
October 18, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, October 17, 2022) Canadian National is challenging some conclusions federal regulators reached in their draft environmental review of the proposed Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger. Full story: Trains Magazine
October 5, 2022 | Canada, CN, CP, Headlines, PSR, Shippers
(Source: Bloomberg, October 4, 2022) The world sorely needs more grains, and Canada has a bin-busting harvest this year. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough rail cars to transport it all. There were almost 2,400 outstanding grain-car orders for the nation’s two major...
September 30, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, September 29, 2022) Canadian National, which lost the battle for Kansas City Southern to rival Canadian Pacific last year, tried to plant seeds of doubt about the CP-KCS merger in lengthy testimony before federal regulators on Thursday. Full...
September 2, 2022 | CN, Fatality, Headlines, Short Line
(Source: Associated Press, September 1, 2022) MOBILE, Ala. — A train engineer who was allegedly chatting on video when his locomotive struck heavy equipment on the tracks in south Alabama, killing a Mississippi man, was charged with reckless manslaughter in the crash,...
August 25, 2022 | Canada, CN, Derailment, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Railway Age, August 24, 2022) The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is calling for Transport Canada and the Canadian rail industry to expedite the implementation of automated train control systems and to develop and implement formal crew resource...
August 16, 2022 | CN, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Progressive Railroading, August 15, 2022) CN states how its proposal for the divestiture of KCS track to CN between Kansas City, Missouri, and Springfield and East St. Louis, Illinois, would — in CN’s view — create greater competition through the development...
